The former president is making news for his ramped-up authoritarian rhetoric, but his embrace of the Republican Party’s most unpopular ideas shouldn’t be ignored.

There have always been two Americas. One based in religious zeal, mythology, and inequality; and one grounded in rule of the people and the pursuit of equality. This next election may determine which one prevails.

The latest criminal indictment highlights his idiocy—but also the threat he still poses to American democracy.

The big crowd in Miami for Trump’s arraignment failed to materialize. But his foot soldiers are at work across the country.

Historians and scholars can’t agree on a definition of fascism, much less whether today’s violent, authoritarian-curious GOP is an example of it.

For nearly a century, Americans have been throwing the term around—without agreeing what that means.

Meet Europe’s new far right, the same as the old far right.

The American press has overhyped Giorgia Meloni’s fascist ties—and underhyped what a wreck the country has become under a series of populist “saviors.”

The president made waves when he referred to the Trump-drunk GOP as “semi-fascist.” Republicans have earned it—and more.

How strongmen use personality cults and alternate realities to stay in power

Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.

Louis Menand’s new book traces the decline of a defining ideal.

The storm on Congress was extremely goofy and deadly serious. Making sense of it will require some dexterity.

If Congress doesn’t, they’ll try this again.

Trump’s cultists truly believed the 2020 election would be overturned. With those hopes dashed, the putsch is on.

The similarities between Trump and strongmen from Mussolini to Bolsonaro are impossible to ignore.

In the Obama era, they resisted “presidential tyranny.” Now they want to help Trump crack American skulls in the streets.

The veterans’ organization has long been plagued by racism and sexism. Staff and members say history is repeating in the Trump age.

Three fascism scholars explain why the term remains taboo in American culture—and how that must change.

Trump is sending an unambiguous message to a country in turmoil—and his armed supporters, from cops to vigilantes, hear it loud and clear.